Benet McLean: The Bopped and The Bopless

Ashley Slater | Aydenne Simone | Benet Mclean | Benet McLean | Donald Gamble | Duncan Eagles | Gareth Lockrane | Isabella-Maria Asbjornsen | Jason Yarde | Jonathan Harvey

Can you be too talented? Long championed by the much-missed Jack Massarik, McLean has somehow slipped beneath the radar that...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2016

Blicher Hemmer Gadd: Omara

Saxophonist Michael Blicher is joined by über-session drummer Steve Gadd and long-time associate Dan Hemmer on organ for a fairly...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Luis Gasca: For Those Who Chant

Carlos Santana | Carmelo Garcia | Coke Escovedo | Garnette Mims | George Cables | Greg Rolie | Hadley Caliman | Joan MacGregor | Joe Henderson | José ‘Chepito’ Areas

Born 1940 in Texas, Mexican trumpeter Luis Gasca cut his teeth playing with jazz giants such as Count Basie and...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

El Nino Machuca: Searching Your Youth

Pacho Machuca is a Seville-born guitarist with a good touch to go with his taste for joining up the languages...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2013

Soft Machine: Other Doors

Fred Thelonious Baker | John Etheridge | John Marshall | Roy Babbington | Theo Travis

Things may come, and things may go, but Soft Machine and the Art School dance go on forever. In the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2023

Shelly Manne: …And His Men Play the music of John Williams from the TV Series Checkmate

A reminder that John ‘Star Wars’ Williams was a fine jazz musician, this is his 1961 music for a long...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2014

Teddy Edwards: It’s About Time

Teddy was particularly proud of this session with Les McCann on piano, and it’s great to have it available again...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2011

Modern Jazz Quartet: Plays for Lovers

The original early 1950s Prestige album is supplemented here by later tracks done for Atlantic, keeping the mood of romance...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz Goes To Junior College

The sequel to the hit LP Jazz Goes To College, this is the Brubeck/Desmond combination on top form, live in...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012

Frank Morgan Allstars: Reflections

Alex Sipiagin | Conrad Herwig | David Kikoski | Igor Butman | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Kenny Davis

The mercurial Morgan, out of jail in 1988, goes head to head with Joe Henderson and Bobby Hutcherson....

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2016